noun · neuter
stigmem
Strong’sG4742
a mark or brand
stem stigm-once in the New Testament0 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
στίγμα, -τος, τό
(< στίζω, to prick), [in LXX: Ca 1:11 (נְקֻדָּה) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4742 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstig'-mah
a mark incised or punched (for recognition of ownership), i.e. (figuratively) scar of service
Fromfrom a primary στίζω (to "stick", i.e. prick);
King Jamesmark.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
tattoo-mark, Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. ἱρά, showing that the persons so marked were devoted to the service of the temple, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially of a slave, NT+5th c.BC+; ἀνωφελῆ σ., of inscribed laws, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 generally, mark, spot, as on the dragon's skin, Refs 8th c.BC+
3 stud, LXX
4 σ. χρυσοῦν colour of gold, Ps.Refs 5th c.BC+
5= cicatricis signum, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | stigmem | stigmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | stigmeu | stigmeiu |
| to, for dative | stigme | stigmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
stigme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
stigmeim1×
Galatians 6:17… mi mēdenos parechatōr, mis gar teim stigmeim tou Iēsu en te sōme mu …… I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.